A Novel

• 200 pages
• hardcover
• with ribbon
• the eBook is available
• as ISBN 978-3-86638-320-3

978-3-86638-319-7

20.00 €           

The clock is ticking, running through an apparently completely normal day, a Tuesday. From morning until evening jumps the clock hand of Dierk Wolter’s narration from one of the six members of the family to the next, voices in a family stream of consciousness what's on their mind. As with all of us. But Dierk Wolters does more than unearth a representative day of the week.

These voices reach from the grandfather to the pet of the family, from motherly worries to troubles in the retirement home, from leisure time sports to hardships in the job, and, of course, all the while poking fun at each other as well. No matter whether it is the splinter of a thought of one of the family members or an inner tirade which sometimes are amusing, sometimes deep, sometimes very familiar, sometimes quirky—most of all, it is interesting to overhear what is going on between the characters. Or not going on.

Because, in between the time for speech and thoughts which Dierk Wolters grants his characters, this novel becomes questionable in the sense of the word: It asks us to question how we try to manage our lives, how we mean to live »together,« while speculation and self-affirmation take the place of conversations; how strongly closeness and distancing, heteronomy and autonomy are virulent in our heads, yet stuck—and keep us distant from each other.

In the jumps, which Dierk Wolters counts for us on the clock of »Dienstag«, in between the recorded shreds of speech, this novel becomes a chronometer for lost or made worth living lifetime.—It is then Tuesday …